Brian Hayes
speaker
1,701 appearances
44 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 18 Sep
Brian Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's how you have to play all the time if you want to be successful.
And, Hayes, I did really appreciate the Venn diagram analogy early.
Venn.
V-E-N-N.
V. You know it, Johnny.
V-E-N-N.
Venn.
It's where multiple factors in a common equation and the ones that overlap are part of a similar result.
What I liked about it, though, Hayes, is that the Venn diagram, the overlapping part that you need to be successful is a sliding scale.
Because what the Leafs have proven in the regular season, you can do a lot more with a bucket full of skill and a bucket that's not so tough on the grit or the jam or the juice or whatever term we want to say that.
But in the playoffs, that pivots where the skill is not as important and you need more of that, whatever you want to call it, grit, jam, juice, competitive spirit.
And I think that's right.
And I find myself agreeing with you, Hayes, pretty wholeheartedly, but I'm like, I think that's right.
It is, but Johnny, my question... It's been 10 years and they've shown they can be good, but they...
I don't know if they can win, win it all with this and with the culture that's been established by the top five guys.
And it's not the top five guys aren't great people and great players and Hall of Fame players and maybe the most talented players of all time on this organization.
But to have all five of them, as you've mentioned several times, wired so similarly, that is a challenge.
You can have one guy wired like that, but not all five.
Well, I mean, I think they got to game seven against a Stanley Cup winner.
So to suggest that they were miles away from being a Stanley Cup contender.
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